When Darkness Falls by Mekons Song Details

Mekons's ' "When Darkness Falls" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1989. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:53, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. There are a total of 14 in the song's album "The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll". In this album, this song's track order is #14. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. In terms of popularity, When Darkness Falls is currently not that popular. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With When Darkness Falls by Mekons having a BPM of 111 with a half-time of 56 BPM and a double-time of 222 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Moderato (at a moderate speed) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall moderate tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of C Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-9.913 dB
Acousticness
10%
Danceability
44%
Energy
61%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
50%

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ISRC
US2391342114
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records